SEPTEMBER 29Today in Food History

• National Coffee Day (Get Free or discount coffee at many donut and fast food chains)• St. Michael's Day, patron of grocers and bakers. (Also called Goose Day in some locations - "If you eat goose on Michaelmas Day, you will never want money all the year round.")

1989 August A. Busch Jr. ('Gussie') died (born March 28, 1899). Grandson of Anheuser-Busch brewery founder Adolphus Busch. 'Gussie' was company chairman from 1946-1975, and he built the company into the largest brewery in world.

2002 Cuban officials announced that the country had struck deals to buy more than $66 million in American food at a historic agribusiness show.